Spilled gravel causes SCV traffic delays

Barricades block the truck transition lanes from the South bound Interstate 5 Freeway to the Antelope Valley Freeway due a gravel spill further south on the 5 freeway snarling traffic on Tuesday morning. Signal photo by Dan Watson.

A gravel truck spilled its load of gravel Tuesday morning, prompting lane closures and a traffic backup in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5, a California Highway Patrol officer said.

Shortly after 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, a truck travelling southbound on the freeway dropped a load of gravel that spilled across three lanes near Highway 14, according to the CHP.

There were no traffic collisions and no injuries as a result of the spill, the CHP officer said.

The spilled gravel spread across three truck lanes of the interstate in front of the truck tunnels.